I am a person living with a handicapping condition. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible, and like many, I use absentee ballots to do so. What I do not appreciate is how opponents of voter ID laws use people like me as examples to argue against these measures. It’s offensive to suggest […]

Mainers are debating over election security and voter ID. Many say our elections are riddled with fraud, despite a complete lack of evidence. This is mostly a Republican effort to restrict the participation of people they feel are more likely to vote Democratic. To see the hypocrisy of it all, we need only look to […]

The administration’s recently enacted cuts to Medicaid will cause 40,000 Mainers to lose health care by 2026, and another 31,000 to become uninsured by 2027. In addition, the Medicaid dollars that are being withheld today will explode future costs and diminish workforce capacity due to unnecessarily poor health outcomes that could, and should, have been […]

On the Nov. 4 ballot, the voters of Maine have a chance to endorse the Extreme Risk Protection Order, or red flag law, which will enable families to approach courts to directly remove weapons from people in crisis. We cannot allow another Lewiston to happen in our state or in our schools. If the Lewiston […]